| 100% | ADULT | 5 | 21-year-old, by most accounts |
| 64% | MYTHS | 5 | Nessie and Bigfoot, by most accounts |
| 64% | BADDEAL | 7 | Agreement with Satan, by most accounts |
| 61% | PLATONICLOVES | 13 | Brahms and Clara Schumann, by most accounts |
| 58% | AGED | 4 | Many years old |
| 55% | ODE | 3 | Many a poem by Sharon Olds |
| 54% | GYM | 3 | Facility joined by many people after New Year's |
| 53% | LIFESAVINGS | 11 | Money put by for many years |
| 52% | SESAMESTREET | 12 | *54-year-old TV show watched by many four-year-olds |
| 51% | ROME | 4 | Capital that predates its country by more than twenty-five hundred years |
| 49% | ELVISPRESLEY | 12 | Musician whose self-titled album topped the charts in 1956 when he was just 21 years old: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ANNALS | 6 | Year-by-year accounts |
| 48% | DONT{BEAST}RANGER | 17 | "You should drop by more often!" |
| 47% | LAST | 4 | "___ Christmas," hit song by pop duo Wham! which topped the UK Singles Chart more than 36 years after its initial release |
| 46% | GENERALS | 8 | Courseload taken by many first-year college students |
| 46% | CLASSPET | 8 | Animal rarely cared for by the same people for more than a year |
| 46% | ALMOST | 6 | "Missed by that much!" |
| 45% | BAMA | 4 | College football team coached by Bear Bryant for more than twenty years, for short |
| 45% | TIMEFLIES | 9 | "The years just zip by!" |
| 45% | SOCLOSE | 7 | "Missed it by that much!" |
| 45% | HIP | 3 | Word that may be followed by "replacement" instead of "hooray" for many older people |
| 44% | EURO | 4 | 21-year-old currency |
| 43% | WONDERFUL | 9 | "It's the Most ___ Time of the Year," a hugely popular Christmas song by Andy Williams |
| 43% | ANTIQUES | 8 | Furniture pieces more than 100 years old |
| 43% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 43% | TIMEFLIES | 9 | "The years just whiz by!": 2 wds. |
| 43% | ALMOST | 6 | "Missed it by tha-a-at much!" |
| 43% | ELLE | 4 | 21-year-old actress Fanning |
| 42% | OCTOGENARIAN | 12 | 80 year old |
| 42% | MARGINALLY | 10 | Not by much |